"fashion during that period. He approached fashion in a different perspective by wanting women to look comfortable yet elegant at the same time. He is also credited with having introduced the tuxedo suit for women and was known for his use of non-European cultural references, and non-white models. Saint Laurent was born on 1 August 1936, in Oran, French Algeria, to Charles and Lucienne Andrée Mathieu-Saint-Laurent. He grew up in a villa by the Mediterranean with his two younger sisters, Michèle and Brigitte. Saint Laurent liked to create intricate paper dolls, and by his early teen years he was designing"
"Yves Saint Laurent (designer) Yves Henri Donat Mathieu-Saint-Laurent (; 1 August 1936 – 1 June 2008), professionally known as Yves Saint-Laurent, was a French fashion designer who, in 1961, founded his eponymous fashion label. He is regarded as being among the foremost fashion designers in the twentieth century. In 1985, Caroline Rennolds Milbank wrote, ""The most consistently celebrated and influential designer of the past twenty-five years, Yves Saint Laurent can be credited with both spurring the couture's rise from its 1960s ashes and with finally rendering ready-to-wear reputable."" He was able to adapt his style to accommodate the changes in"
"Yves Saint Laurent (brand) Yves Saint Laurent SAS (; YSL), also known as Saint Laurent, is a French luxury fashion house founded by Yves Saint Laurent and his partner, Pierre Bergé. The company revived its haute couture collection in 2015 under former Creative Director Hedi Slimane. In April 2016, Anthony Vaccarello was appointed as the Creative Director. Founded in 1961, it has been considered one of the world's most prominent fashion houses and is known for its modern and iconic pieces, such as its tuxedo jackets for women. Today, Saint Laurent markets a broad range of women's and men's ready-to-wear"
"Anthony Vaccarello Anthony Vaccarello (born 18 January 1982) is an Italian-Belgian fashion designer and currently creative director at Yves Saint Laurent. Prior to this he held the position of creative director at Versus Versace, as well as designing his own eponymous line. Vaccarello was born on 18 January 1982 in Brussels, Belgium. He is the only child of Italian parents; his father working as a waiter and his mother in an office. Vaccarello completed one year of law school before enrolling at La Cambre in 2000 to study sculpture. Switching to the fashion course, he was to go on to"
"Pierre Bergé Pierre Bergé (; 14 November 1930 – 8 September 2017) was a French award-winning industrialist and patron. He co-founded the fashion label Yves Saint Laurent, and was a longtime business partner (and onetime life partner) of the eponymous designer. Bergé was born in Oléron (Charente-Maritime) on 14 November 1930. His mother, Christiane, was a progressive teacher, who used the Montessori method. His father worked for the tax office. Bergé attended the Lycée Eugène Fromentin in La Rochelle, and, later, went to Paris. On the day of his arrival, as he was walking on the Champs-Élysées, French poet Jacques"
"Yves Saint Laurent. She was buried in Touques, Calvados where for more than a century her husband's branch of the French Rothschild family has owned Haras de Meautry, a noted horse farm. Marie-Hélène de Rothschild Marie-Hélène Naila Stephanie Josina de Rothschild (; November 17, 1927 – March 1, 1996) was a French socialite who became a doyenne of Parisian high-society and was a member of the prominent Rothschild banking family of France. Born Baroness Marie-Hélène Naila Stephanie Josina van Zuylen van Nyevelt van de Haar in New York City, she was the eldest of the three children of Marguerite Marie"
"in Manapla, Negros Occidental, also open to the public. Yves Leopold Germain Gaston Yves Leopold Germain Gaston was the patriarch of a large family with roots in the City of Silay, in the province of Negros Occidental, Philippines. The real and legal surname of Yves Leopold was in fact Germain. He was born in Lisieux, France, the twenty one of the month of Brumaire, Year twelve of the French Republic at six o’clock evening. (November 13, 1803 in Gregorian calendar). Son of Pierre Germain, National Gendarme professional, and Marie Anne Logre married. Later on, he adopted the very French-sounding name"
"Rebecca Ayoko Rebecca Ayoko, born in Agogo around 1960, is an international catwalk model from Togo. Rebecca was born in Agogo in Togo, West Africa. She grew up in a poor family and suffered abuses in her childhood. Rebecca sold doughnuts as a child. Former advertising star for Kodak, Rebecca Ayoko went in 1980 to Paris, France, where she was noticed by Hachette Filipacchi's team. She also met Regis Pagniez, then director of Lui, and joined the Glamor model agency. She met with Yves Saint Laurent, whom at the time was one of the first few black models to walk"
"9 September 1896 in Wahagnies, Nord, to a family of miners. He began working in the mines when he was very young. During World War I (1914–18) he fought at the front for 46 months. He was decorated with the Croix de Guerre. Laurent became involved in the socialist movement in the Nord, and in 1931 was elected to the General Council of Nord. In the 1936 general elections he was the Popular Front candidate for the 6th district of Lille and was elected in the second round of voting. In the chamber he sat with the socialist group of"
"as a solo sailor and adventurer, which he has documented with many books and films. From a Corsican family, Antoine was born on June 4, 1944 in Toamasina in Madagascar, then part of the French overseas empire for which his father was working. As a child he lived in Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Marseille, and French Cameroons, returning to Metropolitan France for good in 1958. He was graduated from the Lycée Champollion in Grenoble, excelling in advanced mathematics. A 1964 stay in the United States exposed Antoine to the burgeoning folk music revival on the American east coast. He enrolled"
"billion during his reign. He was known for extravagances such as shopping trips to Paris via the supersonic and expensive Concorde. He presided over the country for more than three decades, a period of widespread human rights violations. In 2011, ""Time"" magazine described him as the ""archetypal African dictator"". Mobutu, a member of the Ngbandi ethnic group, was born in 1930 in Lisala, Belgian Congo. Mobutu's mother, Marie Madeleine Yemo, was a hotel maid who fled to Lisala to escape the harem of a local village chief. There she met and married Albéric Gbemani, a cook for a Belgian judge."
"Jean-Baptiste Belley Jean-Baptiste Belley (c. July 1746 – August 1805) was a native of Senegal and former slave from Saint-Domingue in the French West Indies who during the period of the French Revolution became a member of the National Convention and the Council of Five Hundred of France. He was also known as Mars. Belley was said to have been born on 1 July 1746 or 1747 on the island of Gorée, Senegal, but the precise dates of his birth and death are uncertain. At the age of two, he was sold to slavers sailing for the French colony of"
"1835, within Neuilly-sur-Seine (Ile-de-France)), and belonged to a family originating from within Tzschecheln (Brandebourg), the family having emigrated to Switzerland during the 18 century; Benjamin Gottlob, settled in Geneva during 1758. During 1785 Henri married Louise Cardoini, and naturalized to Geneva during 1792, becoming a bourgeois of Netstal. Henri was apprenticed to ""Develay & Cie"", this concluded with employment with ""Picot, Fazy & Cie"" engaged in manufacturing of assorted fabrics, money-changing and banking, whose business branched to Lyon during 1787, proceeding to open a ""bureau de change"" in Geneva. He was imprisoned and subsequently exiled (c. 1793) in the ""révolution"
"""Le Monde"", as well as by Catholic publications such as ""Crux"", the ""National Catholic Reporter"", and the ""Catholic Herald"". Sarah was born in Ourous, a village in then rural French Guinea, on 15 June 1945, the son of converts to Christianity from animism. He is a member of the Coniaguis ethnic group in northern Guinea. In 1957, at age 12, he entered Saint Augustine Minor Seminary in Bingerville, Ivory Coast, where he studied for three years. Because in 1960 relations between newly independent Guinea and the Ivory Coast were strained, he continued his studies briefly in Conakry, Guinea, at Saint"
"Yves Leopold Germain Gaston Yves Leopold Germain Gaston was the patriarch of a large family with roots in the City of Silay, in the province of Negros Occidental, Philippines. The real and legal surname of Yves Leopold was in fact Germain. He was born in Lisieux, France, the twenty one of the month of Brumaire, Year twelve of the French Republic at six o’clock evening. (November 13, 1803 in Gregorian calendar). Son of Pierre Germain, National Gendarme professional, and Marie Anne Logre married. Later on, he adopted the very French-sounding name of Gaston, certainly because for a Frenchman, the surname"
"Dakar. 19 pieces of Lattier's sculptures are currently in the collection of ""Musée National de Côte d'Ivoire"" in Abidjan. Christian Lattier Christian Lattier ( 1925–1978 ) was an Ivorian sculptor born in Grand Lahou, Ivory Coast. Christian Lattier is one of the most renowned artist from Côte d'Ivoire. The ""bare-handed sculptor"", as some called him, emigrated from the Ivory Coast to France as a child. In 1935, at the age of ten, he joined the Marist Brotherhood of Saint-Chamond on the Loire. He began to study in Écoles des Beaux-Arts, Saint-Etienne at twenty-one years old. After a year he transferred"
"to the revolution of the ""Trois Glorieuses."" Charles de Gaulle despised him and France refused to assist him. He resigned in the face of overwhelming opposition to his governance. Youlou, whose last name means ""Grape"" in Lari, was born on 9 June 1917 in Madibou in Pool. A younger child in a family of three boys, he was a Lari of the Kongo. At nine years old, he was baptised and received the Christian name Fulbert. In 1929 he entered the Petit Séminaire of Brazzaville. A bright student, he was sent to Akono in Cameroon to complete his secondary studies."
"for his pivotal vote in 1843 but as the last surviving participant of the 102 men who attended the 1843 Champoeg Meetings. François Xavier Matthieu was born on April 2, 1818 in Terrebonne, Quebec, Canada, to François and Louise Matthieu (""née"" Daufin). Both of his parents were French, with his mother's family originating in Brittany and his father's in Normandy. Both parents were early immigrants to Canada, where they established themselves as independent farmers. Matthieu was educated by a schoolmaster named Velade, who was a great admirer of the American Revolution, instilling in Matthieu and his other pupils an appreciation"
"In one way they are complicit, and all this to make money. Principles should come before money."" Bergé died of myopathy on 8 September 2017, in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, at the age of 86. He is survived by his husband, landscape architect Madison Cox, whom Bergé married in March 2017. Pierre Bergé Pierre Bergé (; 14 November 1930 – 8 September 2017) was a French award-winning industrialist and patron. He co-founded the fashion label Yves Saint Laurent, and was a longtime business partner (and onetime life partner) of the eponymous designer. Bergé was born in Oléron (Charente-Maritime) on 14 November 1930. His"
"the spread of Communism, overcoming opposition from some intellectuals, the Labor-Progressive Party, and many French Canadians. The contrast with Mackenzie King was not dramatic – they agreed on most policies. St. Laurent had more hatred of communism, and less fear of the United States. He was neither an idealist nor a bookish intellectual, but an ""eminently moderate, cautious conservative man ... and a strong Canadian nationalist"". Louis St. Laurent () was born on 1 February 1882 in Compton, Quebec, a village in the Eastern Townships, to Jean-Baptiste-Moïse Saint-Laurent, a French-Canadian, and Mary Anne Broderick, an Irish-Canadian. He grew up fluently"
"London, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The Mondrian collection of Yves Saint Laurent The Mondrian Collection was designed by French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent (1 August 1936 – 1 June 2008) in 1965. This collection was a homage to the work of several modernistic artists. Part of this collection were six cocktail dresses that were inspired by the paintings of Piet Mondrian (1872–1944). Because these six dresses played a major role in this collection the collection is called the Mondrian Collection. In academic literature it has been questioned whether this name fully covers the aim"
"in Alexandria, Egypt). His family is of Dutch Huguenot descent (from 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands) with its origins in Saint-Jean-du-Gard, France. He is married to Canada's well-known sculptor and modern art painter Mimi Mignon de Meillon. His son Louis Jr. is a Canadian writer and poet (New Creative Writing). His daughter Annemarie was a dancer with ""Het Nationale Ballet"" in Amsterdam, directed Cabri Creative Dance school in Victoria, British Columbia and is now a dance educator and performer in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Anne-marie teaches for ""YOUdance"" the outreach program of The National Ballet Company (Canada); in Victoria (BC) she directs and"
"was born in 1974 to Jean-Claude Blanc and Hélène Le Touzey in Bonneville in the department of Haute-Savoie in southeastern France. Leaving France in 1993, Blanc travelled to Senegal and later spent time in the Caribbean, Greece, India, Malaysia and Thailand working at various times as a chef and interior decorator during the 1990s. Blanc had been living in Bali for a year when, after returning from a trip to India, he was detained by immigration officials at Ngurah Rai Airport on December 26, 1999. A bag in his possession containing two diving tanks was inspected after having gone through"
"Scott, Anna Sui, Ralph Lauren, Gucci, Philipp Plein, Moschino, Versace, Blumarine, Jil Sander, Dolce & Gabbana, Each x Other, Dries van Noten, Rochas, Vionnet, Roland Mouret, Rick Owens, Dior, Nina Ricci, Chloé, and Kenzo. In her free time, Lambert enjoys drawing manga and listening to music. Her favourite band is Arcade Fire. Yumi Lambert Laura Yumi Lambert (born 11 April 1995), known professionally as Yumi Lambert, is a Belgian model. Lambert was born on 11 April 1995 in Brussels, Belgium. Her paternal grandmother is Japanese and she has a brother named Maxime. At the age of 15, Lambert visited Dominique"
"east. The distillery was started by René van Eibergen Santhagens, born in Batavia in 1864 to wealthy Dutch parents. He was adventurer, explorer, cavalry officer and chemical engineer. He became passionate about wine and brandy after a stay in France on the estate of the Marquis de Pellerin Latouche in Cognac. It was here that he fell in love with the Marquis' daughter, Jeanne de Pellerin de la Fouche, whom he later married. In 1897, he answered an advertisement for a brandy maker in South Africa. Sammy Marks had obtained a concession from former President Paul Kruger to erect a"
"The Mondrian collection of Yves Saint Laurent The Mondrian Collection was designed by French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent (1 August 1936 – 1 June 2008) in 1965. This collection was a homage to the work of several modernistic artists. Part of this collection were six cocktail dresses that were inspired by the paintings of Piet Mondrian (1872–1944). Because these six dresses played a major role in this collection the collection is called the Mondrian Collection. In academic literature it has been questioned whether this name fully covers the aim of the collection, since there are other artists who inspired"
"as in the Fall-Winter 2005 runway show, where a Belle Époque-inspired dress was named ""Madeleine"". Madeleine Dior Marie Madeleine Juliette Martin, who was born in Angers, France, in 1879 and died in Granville (French department of Manche) in 1931, was the wife of the industrialist Maurice Dior. She was also the mother of the grand couturier Christian Dior and the French Resistance member Catherine Dior. Madeleine Martin was the daughter of a lawyer from Angers and Juliette Surosne, originally from the department of Calvados, France. Monsieur Martin died young and Madeleine was brought up by her mother. In 1898, at"
"at events in the mid-1980s. She worked as a model for next decade. She became the face and star of different fashion shows. She got contracted to work for French luxury fashion house Saint Laurent. After several years as face of fashion house, Rebecca was replaced by Katoucha Niane as face of Yves Saint Laurent (YST). In 2012, she published an autobiography entitled ""Quand les étoiles deviennent noires."" The book was published by the French publishing house Jean-Claude Gawsewitch Éditeur. She dedicated her autobiography publication to her two children Rebecca Ayoko Rebecca Ayoko, born in Agogo around 1960, is an"
"League of Nations, held in Geneva. As a noted speaker at the League of Nations in Geneva, Nemours pronounced these words soon to become well-known on the question of the invasion of Ethiopia by Mussolini's fascist troops, Fear to ever become someone's Ethiopia. C. L. R. James met Nemours in Paris when he was writing ""The Black Jacobins"" (1938). Alfred Auguste Nemours Alfred Auguste Nemours (13 July 1883 – 17 October 1955) was a Haitian General, diplomat and military historian. He was born into a wealthy family in Cap-Haïtien, northern Haiti. His father was Nemours Auguste and his mother Amétise"
"and Hong Kong. The brand has a heavy presence in Japan with boutiques in Kyoto, Tokyo, and Osaka as well as outlet locations across the country. In China standalone boutiques are located in Wuhan, Shanghai, Beijing and Chongqing. Saint Laurent merchandise can also be found in upscale department stores around the world. Yves Saint Laurent (brand) Yves Saint Laurent SAS (; YSL), also known as Saint Laurent, is a French luxury fashion house founded by Yves Saint Laurent and his partner, Pierre Bergé. The company revived its haute couture collection in 2015 under former Creative Director Hedi Slimane. In April"
"Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr Laurent de Gouvion Saint-Cyr, 1st Marquis of Gouvion-Saint-Cyr (13 April 1764 – 17 March 1830) was a French commander in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars who rose to Marshal of France and Marquis. He was born Laurent Gouvion in Toul, Three Bishoprics (now Meurthe-et-Moselle), the eldest child of Jean-Baptiste Gouvion, a tanner, and his wife Anne-Marie Mercier. He adopted the name Saint-Cyr after his mother, who had abandoned him at an early age. He went to Rome when he was eighteen in order to study painting, but, although he continued his artistic studies after his"
"France-Culture"" at midnight of 25 January 2016. Antoine, nicknamed ""Nono"" by his Corsican family, ""Toni"" by his war comrades, ""Bonbon"" within the world of cinema, was born in Ajaccio in 1923. The family leaves again for Africa in 1926, having already spent some years in Conakry in ""République de Guinée"", (formerly ""Guinée française""). His father is ""receveur principal des postes"" in Bobo-Dioulasso in Burkina-Faso (formerly ""Haute-Volta""). Antoine spends some of his youth there but, when his eldest brother must go to high-school, the family returns to Corsica, before his father be appointed ""percepteur"" (tax-collector) at Saint-Rambert d’Alban, and after at"
"products, leather goods, shoes, and jewellery. Yves Saint Laurent Beauté also has a notable presence in the luxury beauty and fragrance market, although this is owned by L'Oréal who hold exclusive licenses for the name. The eponymous brand was founded in 1961 by designer Yves Saint Laurent and his partner, Pierre Bergé, and the current logos were designed in 1963 by A. M. Cassandre. During the 1960s and 1970s, the firm popularized fashion trends such as the beatnik look, safari jackets for men and women, tight pants and tall, thigh-high boots, including the creation of arguably the most famous classic"